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Specie

Definition: Specie

Specie

Noun

1. Coins collectively.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "specie" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)


Specialty Definition: Specie

DomainDefinition

Finance

Gold, silver or other precious metal in bulk, i. e. in the form of ingots or bars rather than in coin. Source: European Union. (references)
 Coined money. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Specie

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Specie."

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Synonyms: Specie

Synonyms: coinage (n), metal money (n), mintage (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Specie

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Deception

Phrase: "keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope"; fronti nulla fides; "ah that deceit should steal such gentle shapes"; "a quicksand of deceit"; decipimur specie recti; falsi crimen; fraus est celare fraudem; lupus in fabula; "so smooth, he daubed his vice with show of virtue".

Money

Currency, circulating medium, specie, coin, piece, hard cash, cold cash; dollar, sterling coin; pounds shillings and pence; Ls.d.; pocket, breeches pocket, purse; money in hand, cash at hand; ready money, ready cash; slug, wad wad of bills, wad of money, thick wad of bills, roll of dough; rhino, blunt, dust, mopus, tin, salt, chink; argent comptant; bottom dollar, buzzard dollar; checks, dibs.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Specie

English words defined with "specie": fiat money, folding moneyGreenbackerHard moneypaper currency, paper money, Price current, Price list. (references)
Specialty definitions using "specie": Chlorotic leaf spot, CHRISTMAS-TREE FARM WORKERgeobotanical prospecting, grapple operatorheel-boom operatorjump-roll operatorLOG LOADERSpecie, Species, SUPERVISOR, GAME FARM, SUPERVISOR, LOG SORTINGTRANSFER CONTROLLERU'traquistsWILDLIFE CONTROL AGENT. (references)
Etymologies containing "specie": species. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Specie" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (morter), Italian (kind, manner, sort, species, type, variety), Latin (appearance, beauty, kind, show, sight, splendor, type), Romanian (breed, species).

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Modern Usage: Specie

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Questa specie d'amore (1972)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Specie

DomainTitle

Books

  • Cardon argenté : belle des croix rouges : mouton miroir : catalogue de la 3e Exposition nationale des variétés végétales et races animales domestiques menacées : une exposition Pro Specie Rara (PSR) realisée en collaboration avec les Conservatoire et jard (reference)

  • Lebendig abgeschieden : C.F. Meyers Berglyrik sub specie mortis, Biographie und Metaphantasie (reference)

  • Luther sub specie philosophiae Eine Metakritik d. Lutherforschung (reference)

  • Sotto Specie Umana (reference)

  • Sub specie aeternitatis : etude des concepts de temps, durée et eternite chez Spinoza (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Making a Difference:Endangered Specie (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Specie

Photos:
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Photo Album: Specie

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Who'll have the specie. Credit: Library of Congress.

Specie claws. Credit: Library of Congress.

The globe man listening to Webster's speech, on the specie circular. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Historic Usage: Specie

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Property belonging to the Allied and Associated Governments or their nationals restored or surrendered under the Armistice Agreements in specie shall not be credited to the German Government. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Speeches: Specie

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837This is the process by which specie is banished by the paper of the banks.

Ulysses S. Grant

1869-1877How the public debt is to be paid or specie payments resumed is not so important as that a plan should be adopted and acquiesced in.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Specie

"Specie" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Specie" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2766,962

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Specie

Expressions using "specie": in specie specie payments. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Specie

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

specie

17

endangered specie tiger white

4

circular specie

3

endangered specie

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Specie

Language Translations for "specie"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

të vogla (change, petty cash, small change). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏قطعة نقدية, ‏عملة مسكوكة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

монети. (various references)

   

Czech

  

kovové peníze. (various references)

   

Danish

  

pengestykke (bullion, coin, hard money, metallic coin), mønt (bullion, coin, hard money, metallic coin, The Mint, token). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

specie (morter), munten (coin, mint), metaalgeld (bullion, coin, hard money, metallic coin), gereed geld (cash, cash balances, cash in hand, cash on hand, cash resources), gemunt metaal (bullion, coin, hard money, metallic coin), geldstuk (coin), contant geld (cash money), baar geld,specie (cash). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پول (Deposit, Gold, Lucre, Money, Muck, Payment, Purse, Remittance, Rhino), وابسته بسکه . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kolikko (coin), käteinen raha (cash). (various references)

   

French

  

numéraire, monnaie métallique, monnaie, espèces monnayées, espèces (species). (various references)

   

German

  

Hartgeld (coinage), Münzgeld (hard cash). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κέρματα (coin, divisional currency, notes), κέρμα (coin), νόμισμα μεταλλικό, μεταλλικό νόμισμα (bullion, coin, hard money, metallic coin). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מטבעות, מצלצלים (coins, money). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fémpénz (coin, hard cash, small coin). (various references)

   

Italian

  

moneta metallica (bullion, coin, hard money, metallic coin). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

正貨 (metallic currency), 正金 (bullion, cash). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しょうき" (bullion, cash, monetary award, prize, redemption, reparation), せいか (chant, confectionery, essence, fame, flower, flower arrangement, fresh flowers, fruitand vegetables, fruits, glory, governing one's family, height of summer, home, hymn, influential family, lower abdomen, metallic currency, midsummer, net price, regular curriculum, regular price, reputation, request for leave of absence, required subject, results, sacred fire, sacred song, shoe-making, the man in power, vacation request). (various references)

   

Manx

  

argid meainey. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eciespay

   

Portuguese

  

numerário (cash, money). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

numerar (cash), monedã metalicã, bani numerar. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

звонкая монета (coin, coinage). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

metalni novac. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

metálico (brassy, metal, metallic, metalline), efectivo (actual, cash, effective, forces, regular). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

mynt (coin, coinage, coins, mint, money, piece), kontanter (cash, hard cash, readies, ready money). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เงินเหรียญ (coinage). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sikke (coin), nakit (bankroll, cash, hard cash, hard money, in specie, liquidity, money, prompt, ready, ready cash, ready money, the ready), madeni para (coin, hard cash, hard money, piece, token), demir para (change, coin, hard money). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

рід (ancestry, breed, brood, clan, gender, genus, kind, kindred, lineage, name, nature, order, species, stem, stock, type), металеві гроші. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Specie

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

in specie. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Specie

LanguageDateSource1 Thessalonians Chapter 5, Verse 22
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintApo pantoV eidouV ponhrou apecesqe
Latin405VulgateAb omni specie mala abstinete vos
Old English990West SaxonOnscuniað eal yfel.
Middle English1395WyclifAbsteyne you fro al yuel spice.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleAbstayne from all suspicious thinges.
Jacobean English1611King JamesAbstain from all appearance of evil.
Victorian English1833WebsterAbstain from all appearance of evil.
Basic English1964OgdenKeep from every form of evil.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Specie

Language1 Thessalonians Chapter 5, Verse 22
Cebuanolikayi ninyo ang tanang dagway sa kadautan.
Chinese各 樣 的 惡 事 要 禁 ' 不 作 。
Croatiansvake se sjene zla klonite!
DanishHolder eder fra det onde under alle Skikkelser!
DutchOnthoudt u van allen schijn des kwaads.
Finnishkarttakaa kaikenkaltaista pahaa.
Frenchabstenez-vous de toute espèce de mal.
GermanMeidet allen bösen Schein.
Haitian CreoleEgzante tou sa ki mal.
HungarianMindentõl, a mi gonosznak látszik, õrizkedjetek!
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariJauhilah segala macam kejahatan.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaJauhkanlah dirimu daripada segala jenis kejahatan.
ItalianAstenetevi da ogni specie di male.
LatvianIzvairieties pat no ïaunuma çnas!
MaoriMawehe atu i nga ahua katoa o te kino.
Norwegianavhold eder fra allslags ondt!
PortugueseAbstende-vos de toda espécie de mal.   
RumanianFeriyi-vq de orice se pare rqu.
Russianх"ЕТЦЙЧБКФЕУШ ПФ ЧУСЛПЗП ТП"Б ЪМБ.
ShuarAshí yajauch ana nuyanka kanaktiarum.
SpanishApartaos de toda apariencia de mal.
Swahilina epukeni kila aina ya uovu.
Swedishavhållen eder från allt ont, av vad slag det vara må.
UmaPelelii' hawe'ea kehi to dada'a.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Specie

Derivations

Words beginning with "specie": species, speciesism, speciesisms. (additional references)

Words containing "specie": cenospecies, ecospecies, interspecies, intraspecies, multispecies, subspecies. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Specie" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: peciam, Scpdcihe, Seekie, seice, Spazio, spcie, Specac, speche, speci, Specia, specif, specil, specre, specy, Speshnev, spiece. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Specie

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pieces.

Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-p-s"

-1 letter: cepes, epics, peise, piece, sepic, spice.

-2 letters: cees, cepe, ceps, epic, ices, pecs, pees, pice, pics, pies, seep, sice, sipe, spec, spic.

-3 letters: cee, cep, cis, ice, pec, pee, pes, pic, pie, pis, psi, sec, see, sei, sic, sip.

-4 letters: es, is, pe, pi, si.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-p-s"
 

+1 letter: eclipse, piecers, pierces, precise, recipes, species.

 

+2 letters: bicepses, calipees, cepheids, cheapies, creepies, crepiest, eclipsed, eclipses, epicenes, epicures, episcope, especial, exciples, peckiest, pectines, pectizes, pedicels, pedicles, pickeers, picotees, piercers, precipes, precised, preciser, precises, preslice, receipts, recopies, reprices, resplice, sapience, seapiece, semplice, sixpence, speciate, specimen.

 

+3 letters: callipees, chelipeds, clipsheet, codpieces, cooperies, copesetic, creepiest, crispened, deciphers, depicters, discepted, earpieces, enciphers, eparchies, epicenism, epicycles, epidemics, episcopes, epistemic, euphenics, eyepieces, impeaches, imprecise, inspected, kinescope, nosepiece, patencies, patiences, peaceniks, peachiest, peccaries, pedicures, pellicles, pencilers, perceives, pericopes, periscope, pesticide, phenetics, pickerels, picketers, piecewise, pinecones, potencies, praecipes, precieuse, precisely, precisest, prelacies, premedics, prentices, preprices, prescient, prescribe, presliced, preslices, priceless, princesse, pudencies, reinspect, replicase, respliced, resplices, sapiences, seapieces, showpiece, sidepiece, sixpences, specialer, speciated, speciates, specified, specifier, specifies, specimens, speechify, spiceless, spiceries, splenetic, toepieces, tricepses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Historic
9. Quotations: Speeches
10. Usage Frequency
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Translations: Ancient
15. Bible Trace
16. Derivations
17. Anagrams
18. Bibliography


  

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